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title: "Local Storage Settings"
description: "The Location step of the wizard is available if you have selected the Local option at the Destination step of the wizard. Specify the location for the backup file and the retention policy for the backup job."
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# Local Storage Settings

The **Location** step of the wizard is available if you have selected the **Local** option at the [Destination](backup_job_target.md) step of the wizard. Specify the location for the backup file and the retention policy for the backup job.

::: important

Consider the following:

- The backup location must be on a separate volume from a volume whose data you plan to back up.
- USB storage devices formatted as FAT32 do not allow storing files larger than 4 GB in size. For this reason, it is recommended that you do not use such USB storage devices as a backup target.
- If during backup job configuration, you want to create a new local directory for storing backups, your user account must have super user (root) privileges.

:::

To specify local storage settings, do the following:

1. Specify location for the backup file in one of the following ways:

   - In the **Location** field, type a path to the directory in which you want to save backup files.
   - Browse to the directory where backup files must be saved:

     1. Select the **Browse** option with the [Tab] key and press [Enter].
     2. In the **Choose backup location** window, select the necessary directory and press [Enter].
     3. Repeat Step 'ii' until the path to the directory in which you want to save backup files appears in the **Current directory** field.
     4. To create a new directory, switch to the **Create dir** button, press [Enter], then type a name for the new directory and press [Enter].
     5. Switch to the **Ok** button and press [Enter]. Veeam Agent will display the path to the specified directory in the **Location** field.

   After you specify location for the backup, Veeam Agent will display the following information on the volume where the directory selected for backup storage resides:

   - **Space** — total size of the volume on which the selected directory resides.
   - **Free** — free space on the volume where the selected directory resides.
   - **Type** — file system type of the volume on which the selected directory resides.

2. To use the GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son) retention scheme, select the **Keep full backups for archival purposes** check box and select **Configure**. In the **Configure GFS** window, specify how weekly, monthly and yearly full backups must be retained. For details, see [Specify GFS Retention Settings](backup_job_gfs_settings.md).
3. In the **Retention policy** field, specify the number of days for which you want to store backup files in the target location. After this period is over, Veeam Agent will remove from the backup chain any restore points that are older than the specified retention period. By default, Veeam Agent keeps backup files for 7 days. The maximum retention period is limited to 9999 days. To learn more, see [Short-Term Retention Policy](retention.md).
4. Select **Advanced** to specify advanced settings for the backup job. To learn more, see [Specify Advanced Backup Settings](backup_job_advanced.md).

![](images/backup_job_repo_local_aix.png)